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The Golden Age of White Collar Crime
Michael Hobbes, Matt Giles, et al. | HuffPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
10 Feb 2020 – Elite lawbreaking is out of control. This is the grotesque story of an existential threat to American society. One of the most conspicuous aspects of white-collar cases is the doting, near-veterinary care with which judges try to prevent defendants from facing harsh punishment. 32% of American managers said they were comfortable behaving unethically to meet financial targets. –Ernst and Young Global Fraud Survey
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Save the Insects, Save Ourselves: Researchers Sound Alarm on Bugpocalypse
Andrea Germanos | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
10 Feb 2020 – Global conservation scientists drew renewed attention to the “insect apocalypse” underway with two companion papers published Sunday [9 Feb] underscoring how the fate of human beings and that of insects is intertwined and the available solutions to address the crisis.
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Bolivia: An Election in the Midst of an Ongoing Coup
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
10 Feb 2020 – On May 3, 2020, the Bolivian people will go to the polls once more. They return there because President Evo Morales had been overthrown in a coup in November 2019. Morales had just won a presidential election in October for a term that would have begun in January 2020. The Organization of American States claimed that there was fraud in the election and Morales was prematurely removed from office.
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Putin Proposes 2020 Summit with Leaders of Russia, France, China, U.S. and UK
Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
23 Jan 2020 – Russian President Vladimir Putin today proposed holding a summit between the leaders of the UNSC P5 in 2020 to discuss the conflict in Libya and other global problems.
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All about That Bass (Music Video of the Week)
PostmodernJukebox – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
The incredibly talented young performer is Kate Davis, and she’s the real deal. Not only does she possesses the kind of voice that will take you back to the days of Billie Holiday, she can also shred on the upright bass.
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On 41st Anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, Has Trump’s Belligerence Strengthened the Iranian Government?
Farhang Jahanpour | Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
11 Feb 2020 – The current impasse in Iran will either result in a much more hard-line government, similar to the one led by President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad, or even in a military coup led by the IRGC. Either scenario will push back the possibility of democratization in Iran by many years, and might even lead to a devastating war. The neocons who have been pushing Trump to pursue these policies have not served him, the United States or Iran well.
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Bat and Hyena
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
15 Feb 2020 – What a baseball bat and a murdered pregnant hyena have in common? Please read on…
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What Next — A Discourse on the Present and the Future
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
Hinduism talks of karma and after life; if a person is kind, does good deeds in his/her present life, their next life will be better, enjoyable and rewarding as a consequence of karma. A natural question that arises is what are the factors or reasons for this dispensation of people in various walks of life to think about what next and how to do better in future. This is difficult to answer satisfactorily but it seems that in the contemporary world, insecurity and competition weigh heavily on peoples’ minds and on their behaviour.
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It’s High Time to End Medical Complicity in Torture
Dr. William Hopkins – Al Jazeera,
17 Feb 2020
10 Feb 2020 – As a psychiatrist and as a human being, I know that we can and must do better. Those responsible for these horrifying actions, such as James Mitchell, must be held to account. Our humanity depends on it.
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Haiti Ten Years after the Earthquake
Resumen | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
10 Feb 2020 – January 12 marked 10 years since the 2010 earthquake in Haiti that killed more than 300,000 people and left an estimated 1.3 million more homeless. Much of the greater Port-au-Prince region laid in ruins, including the presidential palace, 17 of 19 ministries, and many schools and hospitals. Entire neighborhoods leveled, power outages, roads blocked with rubble, some still not removed. The United States government militarized the emergency aid. They sent in thousands of troops to provide “security,” when Haitians needed food, water, and medical care.
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A Plague of Locusts Has Descended on East Africa–Climate Change May Be to Blame
Madeleine Stone | National Geographic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
14 Feb 2020 – A plague of locusts is spreading across the East Africa region threatening the food supply of tens of millions. City-sized swarms of the dreaded pests descend on crops and pasturelands, devouring everything in a matter of hours. The outbreak, which now affects seven countries, is like nothing in recent memory. Human activity has made an ocean circulation pattern misbehave—triggering a weird confluence of events that has caused the infestations.
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New Religion Journalism Award
María-Paz López | International Association of Religion Journalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
Dear TMS editor, I would like to draw your attention to a new journalism award, and to kindly ask you to disseminate the information below to forward it to journalists that may have an interest in submitting entries to the contest. Perhaps also contributors to TRANSCEND can be interested in applying.
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What Does the Myanmar Provisional Measures Order by the International Court of Justice Mean for ASEAN?
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
12 Feb 2020 – It is long overdue for ASEAN to sync its policies towards Myanmar with international opinion, legal and human rights, and the global public. It needs to prove that it is a part of the solution, rather than being a Bystander in yet another genocide in its backyard after Khmer Rouge genocide four decades ago.
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(Português) Os mercados de espécies silvestres de animais são uma bomba-relógio para epidemias
Fátima ChuEcco - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
17 Feb 2020
14 fev 2020 – “A criação intensiva de espécies silvestres, caçadas na natureza e mantidas enclausuradas, leva a um ambiente propício para o surgimento e proliferação de diversos vírus, como a recente pandemia de coronavírus”, segundo World Animal Protection.
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Trump Budget Gives Top Priority to New Generation of Nuclear Weapons
Patrick Martin | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
11 Feb 2020 – The most ominous feature of the new budget document issued yesterday by the Trump administration is the prominent place given to the development of a new generation of nuclear weapons, including so-called low-yield weapons, smaller than the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which are widely regarded as more likely to actually be used in combat.
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Your Thoughts Create Your Future
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
This will show how your thinking creates your consciousness and how to help control it. It provides evidence so that you can see how your life unfolds according to what you draw to it, as dictated by your consciousness and thoughts. By taking the responsibility for yourself and your thinking process, you can make your life more positive and uplifting, reducing or negating the influence of any hurt or negative energies you encounter.
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How Distressed and Injured Indonesian Civets Are Locked in Tiny Cages and Force-Fed Beans to Make the ‘World’s Most Expensive Coffee’
Chris Pleasance – Daily Mail,
17 Feb 2020
The Abuse behind Your Trendy Caffeine Fix – Animals eat and digest the coffee before the beans are ground up and sold for €500 or US$700 per Kilo.
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Breaking with Washington: Arabs and Muslims Must Take a Stance for Palestine
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
12 Feb 2020 – A negotiated solution to the ‘Palestinian-Israeli conflict’, at least the way envisaged by successive US administrations, has failed. Now, Palestinians and their allies would have to explore a whole new path of liberation that does not go through Washington.
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Nobel Peace Prize 2020 – Full List of Qualified Nominations
Fredrik S. Heffermehl - The Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
11 Feb 2020 – A new page on Facebook, Nobel Peace Prize Watch, has been established to present the 36 nominations found qualified for 2020 and permit public exchange and debate around the candidates. Please follow, comment and encourage others to follow.
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The Mushroom Hunters
Neil Gaiman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
Science, as you know, my little one, is the study
of the nature and behaviour of the universe.
It’s based on observation, on experiment, and measurement,
and the formulation of laws to describe the facts revealed.
(Português) Bangladesh, o País que Menos Consome Carne no Mundo
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
8 fev 2020 – Localizado no Sul da Ásia, e com uma grande população de 164,7 milhões de pessoas, onde 86,6% dos habitantes se identificam como muçulmanos, a Nação Bengali, como também é conhecida, não tem uma cultura de alto consumo de carne como ocorre principalmente nas nações mais industrializadas e ricas.
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Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (22 Feb or 1 Mar 1810 – 17 Oct 1849)
Barbara Smolenska-Zielinska | Our Chopin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
The musical talent of Fryderyk became apparent extremely early on, and it was compared with the childhood genius of Mozart. Already at the age of 7, he was the author of two polonaises…. In the summer of 1849, Ludwika Jedrzejewiczowa, the eldest sister of the composer, came from Warsaw to take care of her ill brother. On 17 October 1849, Chopin died of pulmonary tuberculosis in his Parisian flat in the Place Vendôme. He was buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
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China’s Position on Putin’s Proposal of P5 Emergency Summit
Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the Commonwealth of Australia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
24 Jan 2020 – Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying’s Remarks on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Proposal to Hold a Meeting of the Heads of State of the Five Permanent Members of the UN Security Council
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‘Burned at the Stake’ – The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Demolishes the Fake Claims Targeting Julian Assange
Media Lens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
13 Feb 2020 – Vested interests may appear to hold all the cards – they work hard to give that impression – but this is only an appearance. The very fact that they work so relentlessly to shape public opinion indicates the precarious nature of their dominance. The problem is inherent, structural – a ‘democratic’ society that subordinates the needs of the many to the needs of the few is a society based on lies. Propaganda obfuscating those lies can be disseminated endlessly, day and night, but it will always be vulnerable to individuals and groups with genuine expertise motivated by genuine concern for others.
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More Damning Evidence of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Cover-up in Syria
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
14 Feb 2020 – More evidence has emerged to indict the OPCW in carrying out a despicable cover-up in Syria. Even more damning is that the cover-up has been orchestrated in response to pressure from the US and Western allies. This is a grave matter considering the UN-affiliated body is supposed to be a neutral, technical watchdog overseeing the implementation of the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention banning the use of such weapons of mass destruction.
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Mexico’s Fight for National Banking Revives a Forgotten History
Matthew Ehret | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
14 Feb 2020 – In [TRANSCEND member] Ellen Brown’s brilliant new article “Mexico’s AMLO Shows How It’s Done”, the researcher and national banking advocate made the powerful point that the only way to properly fight the neo-liberal order is for nations of the west to follow the lead of Mexico’s current President Lopez Obrador who recently announced the creation of a new network of national banks
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Why Be a Pacifist?
Sarah Freeman-Woolpert | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
From developing a pacifist economy to addressing structural injustice, author Tim Gee discusses the challenge and potential of pacifism in the 21st century.
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Fully-funded Rotary Peace Fellowship
Sarah Cunningham | Rotary International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
13 Feb 2020 – The Rotary Foundation is now accepting applications for the fully-funded 2021 Rotary Peace Fellowship. Up to 130 peace and development leaders are selected globally every year to earn either a master’s degree or a professional development certificate in peace and conflict studies at one of seven Rotary Peace Centers at leading universities around the world. Application deadline: 31 May.
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Look to the United Nations to Find Solace in Trump’s Wind of Madness
Douglas Roche | The Hill Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
12 Feb 2020 – In the UN Charter, we find the truths to guide us, such as saving humanity from the scourge of war, reaffirming faith in fundamental human rights, and the dignity of the human person.
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Outside China, Coronavirus Transmission ‘Iceberg’ May Not Be as Big as Feared
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
13 Feb 2020 – As infections from COVID-19 coronavirus continue to rise, a senior UN health expert today said that there were some indications that disease transmission outside China might not be the tip of the “iceberg” that had been feared.
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Is Climate Change an Apocalypse in the Making?
Kedar Neupane – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
15 Feb 2020 – Unprecedented wildfires across Australia, USA, Amazon, record temperatures, extreme storms and floods across the continents, melting Arctic, sinking low-lying island nations like Fiji, Kiribati, Maldives, the Marshall and the Polynesian Islands due to rising sea water and temperatures do indicate something have already changed in our surroundings. Such periodic weather events of the recent past over a period refer to Climate Change.
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Drought and Hunger: Why Thousands of Guatemalans Are Fleeing North
José García Escobar and Melisa Rabanales – The Guardian,
17 Feb 2020
7 Feb 2020 – The threat of famine and the battle for dwindling natural resources are increasingly being recognised as major factors in the exodus.
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Dilemma
short.funny – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
Two donkeys are standing at a roadside, one asks the other: So, shall we cross?
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Arendt, Eichmann and the Banalization of Blame
Michael Brenner | HuffPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
Hannah Arendt, who originated the term “banality of evil” in her provocative writings, was not interested in explaining Eichmann’s blandness per se. She had more profound thoughts to convey. He was a symbol of something much deeper. Her forcefully argued conclusions that ordinary people can commit horrific crimes created a furor – a blazing fire of argument and recrimination whose embers smoldered for decades.
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Making a Difference: 20 Years of Conflict-Resolving Media
Jake Lynch | The Peace Journalist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
“In my reportage, taking from the course, I always stay focused on stating facts, the truth and let the voice of the people dominate the narrative as opposed to political parties or ‘elite sources’ as you call them. These sources tend to have vested interests that I avoid. I focus on people’s stories, the human-interest ones. Solutions are not what I intentionally work towards, but they can be inevitable outcome of any such endeavour and I hope for that”.
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I Had a Dream…
Banksy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
Subverting the Status Quo
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Journalist Abby Martin Sues State of Georgia over Law Requiring Pledge of Allegiance to Israel
Alan Macleod – MintPress News,
17 Feb 2020
10 Feb 2020 – After refusing to sign a pledge of allegiance to the state of Israel, the state of Georgia shut down a media literacy conference featuring journalist and filmmaker Abby Martin at Georgia Southern University. “This censorship of my talk based on forced compliance to anti-BDS laws in Georgia is just one level of a nationwide campaign to protect Israel from grassroots pressure.” — Abby Martin
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Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
If we are attentive to current events, as the media reports war/peace issues we would quickly conclude that invoking international law in these high profile settings is to be out of touch with how sovereign states go about pursuing their most important economic and political interests, which in areas touching on security is by trusting their defensive capabilities and alliance relations, and not by believing that as long as their actions and policies stay on the right side of the law, they have nothing to worry about.
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Temperature in Antarctica Soars Past 69°F/20ºC as NOAA Reports Last Month Was World’s Hottest January on Record
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
13 Feb 2020 – As the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration today announced that last month was the hottest January ever recorded, the Guardian reported that Brazilian scientists logged a new record-breaking temperature of 20.75°C, or 69.35°F, at Seymour Island in Antarctica on Feb. 9. They called the new record “incredible and abnormal.”
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The Art of the Deal, Pentagon-Style: Wars without Victories, Weapons without End
William J. Astore | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
4 Feb 2020 – The Self-Defeating Military – But there is a “war” that the military-industrial complex truly is winning handily, even overwhelmingly, and that’s the one for money and power within and across American society. Put differently, when it comes to winning hearts and minds, the military fails spectacularly overseas but succeeds brilliantly here in the “homeland.”
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(Castellano) Los humanos aman la violencia: Gandhi y el Foro Económico Mundial
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
Al conmemorar el 72º aniversario del asesinato de Mohandas K. Gandhi ocurrido el 30 de enero de 1948. Como él, que hilaba los paños de su propia ropa, señaló hace más de 100 años: «La Tierra provee lo suficiente para las necesidades de cada persona, pero no para la codicia de cada persona». Esto es algo que los asistentes al Foro Económico Mundial no pueden entender ya que están demasiado dañados psicológicamente. ¿Y tú?
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Deconstructing the Deal: A Breakdown of Trump’s Plan
Chloé Benoist, Mohamed Hassan and Daniel Hilton | Middle East Eye – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
29 Jan 2020 – After a two-year wait for Donald Trump’s Middle East plan to address the Israel-Palestine conflict – framed by the businessman-turned-president as a deal – we now know what it contains. What is proposed exactly and what remains unclear?
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World Health Organization (WHO) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
31 Jan 2020 – What do you know about the novel Coronavirus that is causing a health emergency? Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV). A novel coronavirus (nCoV) is a new strain that has not been previously identified in humans. Watch this short video to find out more.
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Our Collective Survival
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
5 Feb 2020 – I have never become more worried than now about the future. Here I speak not just of the future of the 13 million Palestinians (7.5 million refugees or displaced) but the future of humanity as a whole. Let me just list nine factors that makes you pose and wonder.
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Trump/Netanyahu Diplomacy: Orientalism by any Other Name
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
1 Feb 2020 – This so-called contribution to ‘peace’ requires Palestine to give up its most fundamental rights, and accept a permanent condition of subjugation and victimization. It is framed in such a one-sided pro-Israel manner as if designed to ensure its instant and overwhelming rejection by Palestinian government representatives and by Palestinian public opinion.
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The United States of America’s Doll House: A Vast Tapestry of Lies and Illusions
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
3 Feb 2020 – While truth-tellers Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning sit inside jail cells and Edward Snowden lives in exile in Russia, the American people hole up in an illusionary dwelling constructed to reduce them to children afraid of the truth. Or is it the dark? It has become a more sophisticated haunted doll’s house, an electronic one with many bells and whistles and images that move faster than the eye can see. We now inhabit a digital technological nightmare controlled by government and corporate forces intent on dominating every aspect of people’s lives.
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Curbing the Coronavirus–While Targeting China
Chandra Muzaffar | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
4 Feb 2020 – We are inundated with an avalanche of information on the novel coronavirus infection. Within this avalanche, there is a lot of “news” that is clearly false.
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Mysterious Complementarity between Capitalism and Arsenalism
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
10 Feb 2020 – The discourse between those in favour of capitalism and those critical of it is now a characteristic of those concerned with social progress in general. The criticism of alternatives variously proposed could be said to follow a similar pattern. Both “sides” are comfortable with their understanding of the appropriateness of their own perspective and the dangerously misinformed inefficacy of the other — readily extended to framing what is opposed as fundamentally “evil”.
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Why NATO Doesn’t Target Russia? Nepal Is the New Enemy, Stupid!
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
4 Feb 2020 – About 37,000 soldiers from 18 countries are to participate in the U.S.-run manoeuver dubbed Defender Europe 2020 in May and June. And just how do they get away with deceiving the world with their militarised mantra about stability, security and peace – no matter it is always about more weapons and offensive military strength – virtually without any important (if they are) mainstream media reporting it, not to mention ask questions about it?
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US Deploys New Low-Yield Nuclear Submarine Warhead
William M. Arkin and Hans M. Kristensen | Federation of American Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
29 Jan 2020 – The US Navy has now deployed the new W76-2 low-yield Trident nuclear submarine warhead. Each W76-2 is estimated to have an explosive yield of about five kilotons. The remaining 18 missiles on each submarine like the Tennessee carry either the 90-kiloton W76-1 or the 455-kiloton W88. Each missile can carry up to eight warheads under current loading configurations.
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Erich Fromm’s 6 Rules of Listening: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist on the Art of Unselfish Understanding
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
“Understanding and loving are inseparable. If they are separate, it is a cerebral process and the door to essential understanding remains closed.”
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The Psychiatric Drug-Induced Suicide of Robin Williams–Six Years Later
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
And the Perils of Being a Drugged-Up Insomniac Celebrity Who Gets Sucked into Mainstream Psychiatric Care – The Parallel Paths of Artistic Geniuses like Hemingway, Robin Williams, Michael Jackson and Prince – 59 years ago (July 2, 1961) an American literary icon, Ernest Hemingway, committed suicide after being discharged from a psychiatric ward at the Mayo Clinic.
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Coronavirus Emergency: Here’s What We Know So Far
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
A new strain of coronavirus (officially named 2019-nCoV), which has caused respiratory diseases in China, and spread to at least 23 other countries, has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization. Here are the basic facts you need to know about the virus (figures correct as of Feb 3 2020).
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‘Try to Stop Me’ – The Mantra of Our Leaders Who Are Now Ruling with Impunity
George Monbiot – The Guardian,
10 Feb 2020
5 Feb 2020 – Trump, Bolsonaro, Modi, Johnson. Across the world, flouting the law has become normalised. We have to stop it. It is not a sufficient condition for fascism to take root, but it is a necessary one: the willingness of political leaders not only to break the law but to revel in breaking it is a fatal step towards the replacement of democracy with authoritarian terror.
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Libya Is Being Torn Apart by Outsiders
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
4 Feb 2020 – Six years after the catastrophic NATO war on Libya, it remains a country torn into shreds: two governments in place—one in Tripoli and one in Tobruk—and a civil war that has too many factions to name; several foreign countries intervene for their own narrow ends making peace impossible. Last year, it became clear that the already chaotic Libya would slip into disaster.
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The American Life Is Killing You
Erik Rittenberry | Medium – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
1 Feb 2020 – We the people of the United States have been led far away from the vibrant American spirit of Emerson, Thoreau, and Walt Whitman. As Thoreau well understood, “Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.” We prize HAVING over BEING, material possessions over experiences. We have contempt for nature these days and are too engrossed in the mechanical ways of living to truly FEEL what it means to be alive on this planet.
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Figures of Thought
Howard Nemerov – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
To lay the logarithmic spiral on
Sea-shell and leaf alike, and see it fit,
To watch the same idea work itself out…
(Português) Curta-metragem com Joaquin Phoenix aborda queimadas na Amazônia e Austrália
Giovanna de Castro - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
10 Feb 2020
No filme, o ator é um médico que luta para salvar o planeta Terra à beira de um colapso.
→ read full articleA Rationale for Unbounded Organization: A Path to Positive Peace
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
This is a proposal for a pragmatic, functional and realistic framework for talking, thinking and building institutions.
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Biological Weapons: A Useful and Timely Factual Overview
Larry Romanoff | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
7 Feb 2020 – The US government and its many agencies and educational and health institutions have for many decades conducted intensive research into biological warfare, in many cases strongly focused on race-specific pathogens.
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(Português) Djokovic: “Atribuo grande parte do meu sucesso à minha dieta”
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
30 Jan 2020 – Djokovic já havia revelado que se sente mais saudável, com mais energia, dorme melhor e se recupera melhor desde que adotou uma dieta á base de plantas.
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Making the Earth Charter Happen: A Necessary Utopia
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
7 Feb 2020 – Twenty years ago Kamla Chowdhry, one of the founding members of the Earth Charter Commission asked, “How can we ensure that ethical and spiritual values get a fair hearing with the economist, technologist, and the industrialist? How do we weld economics with ethics, and have a technology with a human face?” Answering those questions remains central to our efforts today for a more just, sustainable and peaceful world.
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Three Extraordinary Australian Journalists: Burchett, Pilger & Assange
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
7 Feb 2020 – Australia has produced extraordinary journalists across three generations: Wilfred Burchett (deceased in 1983), John Pilger (80 years old but still active) and Julian Assange (48 years old, currently in London’s Belmarsh prison). They were all rebels and all international. They all depended on freedom of the press which is now at stake.
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Analysis of Violence for Peacebuilders: Galtung’s Triangle
The Peacebuilding Practitioner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
A conflict analysis is a nonnegotiable first step when preparing a conflict transformation and peacebuilding intervention. Understanding violence is part and parcel of this initial assessment. Johan Galtung’s Triangle is a simple yet powerful tool to get a better understanding about the types of violence influencing the situation. This video explains how it can be used.
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Fragmented Society
Alberto Binder | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
13 Jan 2020 – We want to demonstrate a complex phenomenon that produces the “fragmentation” of most social groups that are treated and treat each other as “discriminated minorities,” that measures or makes it difficult the “constitution” of a “majority” and, thus, produces the political effect of making those majorities have an absolute impossibility of acquiring political hegemony and little possibility of producing social policies.
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The House of the Rising Sun (Music Video of the Week)
The Animals – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
Classic from 1964 – Song with meaning…
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AI And Predictive Justice in Our Courts: Paying Heed to Exigencies of the Responsibilities and the Risks
Dr Jaspal Kaur Sadhu Singh | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
5 Feb 2020 – The point of this exercise was to determine whether the judge was more precise judging the accused as “high risk” or whether the machine would be a better judge of that. The machine won, man lost. The steps taken to introduce Artificial Intelligence in the administration of justice is commendable. However, on the backfoot of the challenges of predictive justice, we cannot defend to the hilt its efficiency and shrug our responsibilities without a tenable assessment of the risks.
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The Doctrine of Just War: Just That, War! (Or more War than Just)
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
War as an institution to resolve conflict is an abomination, like slavery and colonialism as institutions. Occasional war, slavery and colonialism are probably hard to eliminate. But the key word is institution, legitimized by social norms and mores. A doctrine of just war is designed to do exactly that, offer a legitimation, for instance by seeing the evil of war as something that can be outweighed by possible positive consequences.
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Turning Despair into Hope
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
30 Jan 2020 – Toward a new Universal Declaration of Human Rights – Human rights have ceased to be a conditionality in the context of international relations; individuals and peoples have, at best, been reduced to objects of human rights rhetoric. The global social division of fear and hope is so unequal that a number of phenomena that used to be unthinkable less than thirty years ago now strike us as being the ordinary features of a new normal.
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From Colonization to Kleptocracy: A History of Angola and Isabel dos Santos
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
5 Feb 2020 – Our visual explainer shows you how Africa’s richest woman rose amid a country divided by war and rich in natural resources. Born in 1973 in Azerbaijan, Isabel is the only child of José Eduardo dos Santos, then an exiled guerrilla fighter, and Tatiana Kukanova, a Russian, whom the future Angolan president met while studying petroleum engineering at the Azerbaijan Oil Academy in Baku. The marriage didn’t last, and Isabel was raised by her mother, spending some time in Luanda and her teen and young-adult years in London, where she attended the exclusive St. Paul’s girls’ school.
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Crisis and Opportunity: The ‘Deal of the Century’ Challenge for Palestinians
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
5 Feb 2020 – After several postponements, US President, Donald Trump, has finally revealed the details of his Middle East plan, dubbed ‘Deal of the Century’, in Washington on Jan 28. Standing triumphantly beside Trump was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This is the Palestinian leadership’s greatest challenge. Will it move forward with a Palestinian-centric strategy or persist in the same place, regurgitating old language and reminiscing of the good old days?
→ read full articleCoronavirus: UN Health Agency Moves Fast to Tackle ‘Infodemic’; Guterres Warns against Stigmatization
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Servie,
10 Feb 2020
4 Feb 2020 – The World Health Organization has taken steps to ensure that the coronavirus epidemic that has claimed hundreds of lives in central China does not spark a dangerous social media “infodemic” fuelled by false information.
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Japan Races to Build New Coal-Burning Power Plants, Despite the Climate Risks
Hiroko Tabuchi – The New York Times,
10 Feb 2020
3 Feb 2020 – It is one unintended consequence of the Fukushima nuclear disaster almost a decade ago, which forced Japan to all but close its nuclear power program. Japan now plans to build as many as 22 new coal-burning power plants — one of the dirtiest sources of electricity — at 17 different sites in the next five years, just at a time when the world needs to slash carbon dioxide emissions to fight global warming.
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Gandhi: The First Peace Journalist
Steven Youngblood | The Peace Journalist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
6 Feb 2020 – When asked to describe Mahatma Gandhi, most would say he was an Indian independence leader, human rights defender, and spiritual guide. However, “People don’t think of him as a journalist” even though “he was a journalist from an early age, and died as a journalist.”
→ read full articleTimes Gone By and the Contemporary World: Role of Religion
Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
In the complex modern society of today there are wars, terrorism, violence and billions of dollars being spent on manufacture, sale, and distribution of deadly weapons. There is also poverty, inequality, loneliness and isolation on a social level. My feeling is that perhaps religion will offset the cruelty, isolation of the modern world and usher in peace, harmony, love and caring for each other in this unequal world.
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Who’s a Big Boy Now?
Joe Kandra and Kathie Malley-Morrison | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
Sigh!
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Trump, Racism, and Fascism – More than Just Personality Disorders
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
Trump has been reprehensible in pandering to white racism. But the Republicans have no monopoly on this franchise. We should remember the legacy of Jim Crow and Dixiecrat Democrats in high office including six US senators and two Supreme Court justices who were members of the Ku Klux Klan. FDR, arguably the most liberal US president and a Democrat, force relocated and incarcerated in concentration camps 120,000 Japanese Americans, including orphaned children and people with as little as 1/16th Japanese ancestry.
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Trump and Netanyahu Dictate Terms of Palestinian Surrender to Israel and Call It Peace
Robert Mackey – The Intercept,
10 Feb 2020
29 Jan 2020 – Donald Trump unveiled “a vision for peace,” which permits Israel to annex much of the occupied West Bank, offering the Palestinians only limited autonomy.
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Expiration of New START Means Nuclear Chaos
Global Zero – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
5 Feb 2020 – On February 5, 2021, just one year from today, the last remaining nuclear pact between the United States and Russia will expire – ending more than a half century of arms control between the two most nuclear-armed nations on the planet. The 2010 New START agreement is the last remaining restraint on both nations’ strategic nuclear arsenals.
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Trump Attempting to Consolidate the Balfour Declaration
Askiah Adam | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
3 Feb 2020 – That Palestinians are already protesting against the Vision is a clear signal that the people are far from enthusiastic despite the attempt to bribe them with US$50 billion over ten years to develop the Palestinian economy and rebuild its infrastructure destroyed by Israeli bombing. One million jobs are promised. Iran is clearly against it. Russia’s negative attitude to Trump’s deal is no secret.
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UN Rapporteur Nils Melzer Exposes British Government Attempts to Obstruct His Defence of Assange
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
5 Feb 2020 – At a meeting in London’s St. Pancras New Church on Monday [3 Feb] night, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer provided new information about the efforts of the British government and the establishment media to hinder his defence of imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Melzer revealed he had “been asking the BBC for an interview for nine months.” He had offered to appear on the “Hard Talk” program to discuss Assange’s case, but had been rebuffed with the claim that it would not be “newsworthy.”
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Can the U.S. and Iran Avoid a Disastrous Collision?
Prabir Purkayastha | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
3 Feb 2020 – Russia and China have limited capacity to beat the U.S. sanctions. So has India, the other big buyer of Iranian oil. All countries have problems in paying Iran except through barter deals. This is impossible in the modern era without duplicating the existing global financial infrastructure independent of the United States. The U.S. exercises a stranglehold on the world’s financial structure, and this gives the U.S. sanctions international teeth.
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Goodbye to All That: The UK after Brexit
John Feffer | Foreign Policy In Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
5 Feb 2020 – If I were the EU, I’d be wiping my hands, sighing in relief, and slamming the door after the UK’s long-delayed departure. Britain had been a noisy, pushy houseguest for 47 years, and it was only growing ruder. Even as it steps out the door it’s trying to negotiate the terms: all rights with no responsibilities. Brexit could see the UK eventually lose Scotland, Northern Ireland, and a great deal of its prosperity.
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Mexico’s President AMLO Shows How It’s Done
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
8 Feb 2020 – While U.S. advocates and local politicians struggle to get their first public banks chartered, Mexico’s new president has begun construction on 2,700 branches of a government-owned bank to be completed in 2021, when it will be the largest bank in the country. At a press conference on Jan. 6, he said the neoliberal model had failed; private banks were not serving the poor and people outside the cities, so the government had to step in.
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U.S. Marches toward Police State amid Cheers!
James Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
4 Feb 2020 – Impeached U.S. President, Donald J. Trump, gave his 1 hour and 18 minute “State of the Union” speech today. And they cheered and they cheered! They cheered – Republicans and Democrats alike, when Trump spoke about his regime change campaigns against Cuba, Venezuela and other countries. They cheered when Trump introduced CIA Venezuela coup puppet man, Juan Guaido. They cheered when Trump boasted about spending $2.2 TRILLION on the U.S. military in the 3 years since he became president… (Read on)
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Portuguese Whistleblower Named as Leaker behind Isabel dos Santos Leaks
James Badcock – The Telegraph,
3 Feb 2020
27 Jan 2020 – A Portuguese whistleblower has claimed responsibility for leaked files that allegedly implicate Isabel dos Santos, the billionaire daughter of the former Angolan president, in murky international business deals. Lawyers for Rui Pinto today claimed he was behind the so-called “Luanda Leaks” and likened him to the whistleblower Edward Snowden.
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Trump Lifts Restrictions on US Landmine Use
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
31 Jan 2020 – US President Donald Trump has lifted restrictions on the deployment of anti-personnel landmines by American military forces. The decision reverses a 2014 Obama administration ban on the use of such weapons. The Trump administration said Mr Obama’s policy could put US troops “at a severe disadvantage”.
→ read full article(Français) Pourquoi le budget militaire gonflé menace de faire tomber l’empire américain
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
1 fév. 2020 – Le budget militaire américain n’est pas payé par les bénéfices des exportations américaines. En fait, les États-Unis importent régulièrement plus qu’ils n’exportent et accusent un déficit qui, pour l’année 2019, était supérieur à un billion de dollars. Comme nous l’avons vu, le budget militaire en représente près de 75%.
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The Decline of International Law: Reflections of a True Believer
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
27 Jan 2020 – There is widespread agreement that international law is experiencing a sharp decline in relevance when it comes to foreign policy, especially in the eye of the public. At first glance, this seems surprising. The impression of decline derives from high profile issues of governments acting without regard for international law, especially in the area of peace and security.
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Climate Change Means Lifestyle Change
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
28 Jan 2020 – The nonviolent tradition of Shelly, Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela is international. Culture is cooperative. It is not competitive. Global cultural cooperation can lead us to a sustainable and peaceful society. Our almost miraculous modern communications media, if properly used, can give us a stable, prosperous and cooperative future society. A New Freely Downloadable Book
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The Disaster of Utopian Engineering
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
28 Jan 2020 – Neoliberalism, the latest utopian project, aims at concentrating wealth in the hands of the few while reducing the many to peonage.
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On the Eve of the Release of Trump’s ‘Deal–Farce of the Century’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
28 Jan 2020 – Interview by Rodrigo Craveiro from the Brazilian daily Correio Braziliense –
Craveiro: Why are Palestinian leaders rejecting to talk with president Trump about this new peace plan?
CIA Used Prisoner as ‘Training Prop’ for Torture, Psychologist Testifies
Sacha Pfeiffer | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
23 Jan 2020 – A man accused of helping finance the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks was subjected to “excessive” abuse at the hands of CIA interrogators who used him as a training tool for employees learning the agency’s torture techniques, according to testimony from James Mitchell , the psychologist who helped design the torture program.
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China Completes Emergency Hospital in 9 Days for Virus Outbreak
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
2 Feb 2020 – China completed today work on the emergency Huoshenshan Hospital, set up to tackle the new coronavirus outbreak in its epicenter in Wuhan. The 1,000-bed hospital, which has an area of 34,000 square meters, was officially delivered to military medics.
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Trump Plan Will ‘Finish Off Palestinian Cause’, PM Warns
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
Trump on Monday [27 Jan] held separate meetings with right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his election rival, Benny Gantz, in Washington, DC over his long-delayed proposal that has been kept secret. “We reject it and we demand the international community not be a partner to it because it contradicts the basics of international law and inalienable Palestinian rights,” Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said.
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No Bullets Spent (Music Video of the Week)
Spoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
(Lyric Video)
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US Space Force Logo Draws Comparisons to ‘Star Trek’
AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
25 Jan 2020 – Trump unveiled the logo of Space Force yesterday. It drew immediate mockery among social media users. The logo bears an uncanny resemblance to the insignia of Starfleet — the peacekeeping and exploration force of the United Federation of Planets alliance, which is headquartered on Earth whose adversaries include Klingons and Romulans.
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China’s Virus Response Has Been ‘Breathtaking’
Pepe Escobar – Asia Times,
3 Feb 2020
30 Jan 2020 – Chinese scientists have already handed over to Russian counterparts the virus genome, with snap tests able to identify it in a human body within two hours. A Russia-China vaccine is under development.
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‘Good’ Deeds?
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
A scout master asked three little scouts what good deed they had done today. The first one replied, “I helped an old lady cross the street.”
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The Imminent Threat of Trump and the Value of Progressive Third Parties
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
29 Jan 2020 – As predictable as death and taxes is the quadrennial injunction from liberals for progressive third parties to cease and desist. Trump is the hook; the Dems are the bait. Don’t swallow it and get reeled in by the two-party duopoly. A better world is possible.
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